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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: KatManDEW on January 18, 2009, 07:04:27 PM
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Where's a good place to get reasonably priced 50 pin SCSI hard drives for the Amiga? I have a GVP 040 board with SCSI controller.
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where are you located ?
that would help :-) I'm sure a lot of us have spare disks depending on what size you are after ?
cheers
Tom UK
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I'm in Ohio. I'll take as big as I can get for a reasonable price. I would like at least 4-10 gig.
What do you have?
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Thrift stores used to be a great place. Unfortunately now, ppl destroy HDs to protct their personal info. Most thrift stores stopped selling computers altogether.
I have had mixed results on e-Bay. Quantum was the HD of choice for SCSI Macs, but they are out of business now. Many of the other brands have confusing configurations or are not as durable.
Are you aware of the OS requirements of HDs greater than 4 Gigs in size?
What part of Ohio do you live in?
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I'm near Columbus.
I just ordered OS 3.9. Will it work with HD's bigger than 4 gig?
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Well, I'd say in my attic, but postage would be probably much to high.
One tip I would like to give, although is have a look at Power Macs prior to the G3 versions. Great chance you can get them for a candy-bar and you'll most probably be treated with internal ZIP drives and CD-drives as well. Only downside is you'd have to ditch the Apple afterwards.
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Toss me a number for a drive, and I might be interested. Shipping can't be that bad from Cinci to me.
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I see SCSI drives on craigslist from time to time. You might look there. In addition to Mac stuff, you could look for old Sun gear. I bought a little Sun external drive that contained two 2GB scsi drives, with room for two more.
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Invest in an ACard 7720U SCSI->IDE adapter and use old IDE hard drives upto 2TB.
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http://www.weirdstuff.com
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Robert Bernardo
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You can find some decent deals on SCSI drives via EBay. I bought a 'set' of 2 9.1GB 68-pin drives for my Flyer, (listed as Sun workstation drives) $14.99 + plus shipping... don't forget you can get cheap 68- / 80-pin to 50-pin SCSI converters from EBay as well. The key with EBay is patience. If you need more than ~9GB the cost will be more, IME.
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and another tip, is don't just search for "AMIGA". chances are you can get Scsi drives for much cheaper under "other" categories than in the Amiga searches. Sellers love to hose the Amiga market, saying its "rare" when chances are it is just a plain Scsi peripheral.
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Thanks for the tips! I have some 68 and 80 pin SCSI drives, so that might be the ticket.
I'm a searching...
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RobertB wrote:
http://www.weirdstuff.com
Wow, their prices for old SCSI drives are just ridiculous (in the bad way.)
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P-Mail sent .........
Mel
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@ Kat
There is an Amiga dealer near you, or was. In recent years, he has been letting his inventory dwindle. Compuquick - 614 428-4113 or -4119, is run out of the back of an India food store in Gahanna. The phone greeting will probably not mention Compuquick. Address is 1147 Hamilton Rd.
He used to have new and used hardware, many CD titles, the last Amiga magazines, etc. It might be worth browsing around for a deal.
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Google Earth:
Compuquick Media Center
1147 N Hamilton Rd
Gahanna, OH 43230
(614) 428-4113
It's so easy nowadays...
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Holy cow Tenacious! That's a sweet load of Amiga hardware in your sig!
I called the guy in Gahana and he didn't act like he has much left. He has no 50 pin SCSI drives. Looks like a 50-68 pin adapter for me.
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KatManDEW wrote:
I called the guy in Gahana and he didn't act like he has much left. He has no 50 pin SCSI drives. Looks like a 50-68 pin adapter for me.
Doesn't surprise me.
I emailed Randhir from Compuquick a month ago and got one reply from him and that was it. Hadn't heard from him again.
Sad too. He used to have quite a large Amiga inventory back in the 90's.
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KatManDEW wrote:
Holy cow Tenacious! That's a sweet load of Amiga hardware in your sig!
I called the guy in Gahana and he didn't act like he has much left. He has no 50 pin SCSI drives. Looks like a 50-68 pin adapter for me.
When adapting a 68 pin wide drive to a 50 pin narrow bus, be aware that a lot of drives will not fall back gracefully unless the unused lines (high byte) of the wide bus are terminated.
So for this purpose, and to avoid surprises when swapping drives (the one you find today might work without it, but the next one of a different model might not), make sure you get an adapter with "high byte termination."
Or use a 68-pin cable with wide termination at each end and adapt only the connection to the narrow host adapter, but that creates more of an electrical "stub," so YMMV.
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If I go IDE, would I be better off with a Budda or a ACard? Would I be able to boot with either of those with my GVP 040 accelerator?
I kinda like the Budda from what I know about it.